Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Nick Cooper, a volunteer with the Houston charity Food Not Bombs, said it was a moment “we had been waiting for for 11 years” as police ticketed a man for giving food to homeless people outside a public library, provoking anger and plans to challenge a long-standing city ordinance.

■ Susan Zimmerman of Austin, Texas, who is five months pregnant, said “I’m pretty sure she [her baby] slept through it” after a Lufthansa flight to Germany was diverted to Virginia when turbulence hit and the plane fell about 1,000 feet, with seven passengers suffering minor injuries.

■ Kerri Arakawa, a passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas to Orlando, Fla., that was diverted to Jacksonvil­le, Fla., when a battery caught fire in an overhead bin, said those rushing to the rescue included a retired firefighte­r.

■ Edmond Naman, a juvenile court judge in Mobile, Ala., was censured by a state ethics panel for repeatedly appointing his brother-in-law to handle indigent cases.

■ Thomas Hudson, president of Jackson State University in Mississipp­i, was put on administra­tive leave by the state governing board with no public explanatio­n, but the faculty senate previously hit him with a vote of no confidence.

■ Gideon Avni said the Israel Antiquitie­s Authority “takes full responsibi­lity for the unfortunat­e event” as the government acknowledg­ed that a recently discovered inscriptio­n in clay bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of the Persian Empire, is not authentic.

■ Lucian Simmons of Sotheby’s noted that this year marks the 25th anniversar­y of a landmark global conference on looted art as a Kandinsky painting that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was killed in the Holocaust was sold at auction by her descendant­s for $44.9 million.

■ Tremaine Wright of New York’s Cannabis Control Board hailed the opportunit­y for entreprene­urs as the state doubles the number of marijuana-shop licenses it’s awarding to 300, while at the same time officials scramble to stop the proliferat­ion of unauthoriz­ed pot stores and trucks.

■ Bill Rabon, sponsor of a North Carolina Senate bill to legalize medical marijuana, said the first time was just happenstan­ce, the second time not so much, as legislator­s twice in a week voted at precisely 4:20 p.m., a number that’s cannabis-culture slang for smoking weed.

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